![]() Even the cobwebs in Dracula's lair have more 'personality'. Close-ups reveal more makeup detail, and the enhanced contrast ratio brings out the beauty of the original cinematography - mists, textures and contextual details are now more visible. The images are sharp and clean and stabilized - no more jumps at cuts or the feeling that static scenes are 'floating' in the frame. HD means High Definition, which becomes immediately apparent when these visions hit the screen. Remastered in Blu-ray, the eight top titles in the Universal Classic Monsters The Essential Collection have seen untold hours of cleanup and restoration work. But this newest release (resurrection?) collection exhibits a dramatic jump in quality. Through many home video reissues the Universal monsters have been steadily improved. To admire the monsters in detail we had to reference republished still art of the fantastic Jack Pierce makeups. ![]() Murky, blurry images on TV were all we could see. But through it all the films themselves were trapped in 16mm TV prints that didn't convey the care and creativity with which they were made. The 1956 release to television re-ignited the legend of Dracula and Frankenstein, and by the early 1960s a full wave of juvenile monster mania had gripped the baby boomer generation, with magazines, plastic kits and 8mm digest samplers. A trial re-issue of horror classics in the late 1930s led to a new wave of '40s productions, and even after further reissues licensed to Realart, interest did not diminish. ![]() Smash hits in the Pre-code Depression days, they weathered the enforcement of Catholic-dominated censorship system dedicated to their suppression. Universal's horror classics have never waned in popularity. It's not exactly timed for the product's street date, but I hope it will compensate in quality. Well, my review of this long-awaited disc set is finally up. Starring Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Claude Rains, Ernest Thesiger, Elsa Lanchester, Gloria Stuart, Lon Chaney Jr., Evelyn Ankers, Maria Ouspenskaya, Susanna Foster, Richard Carlson, Julia Adams, Richard Denning.Äirected by Tod Browning, George Melford, James Whale, Karl Freund, George Waggner, Arthur Lubin, Jack Arnold ![]() Universal Classic Monsters The Essential CollectionÄ¡931-1954 / B&W & Color /1:37 flat Academy and 1:85 widescreen one picture in 3D / Street Date Octo/ 159.98 ![]()
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